Christine Todd
Christine Todd was born in County Durham, England, but lived most of her life in the American Midwest. Several of her non-fiction articles were published in Wisconsin’s The Milwaukee Journal newspaper. During her many years in radio advertising, she wrote hundreds of sixty-second commercials, inadvertently training herself for the writing of micro-fiction. A year ago, she and her Anglophile American husband left Chicago to settle down in London. At present, she is completing her first novel, and a collection of short stories. 'R.I.P' is her first published work of fiction.
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Imagine Coal
and
More Micro-Fiction
Short Story Anthology
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Format: Demi 82 Pages
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The Woman with a Coffee Pot opposite me is so ugly with her work-a-day blue dress. Without rest I have to stare into her large, thick, round face, so like my own mother: the stern gaze, the bulbous nose. She is admired. Cezanne kept her. I am a working girl fresh from the fields, so blotted out.
‘You are the invisible form of my composition,’ he said.
– Extract from ‘Imagine Coal’ by Mary Cookson
Imagine Coal and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ second micro-fiction competition of 2007. The thirty-one tiny fragments of wonderfulness within very concisely discourse on a fantastic variety of subjects, from artists’ models to attempted matricide via alien invasions, dancing GIs and elderly men with aphasia.
